On Thu, February 8, 2007 13:11, Frans Pop said:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 09:56, you wrote:
>> I don't really understand how kernel command line options become env
>> vars though - is something preventing console= from being an env var
>> at this point?
>
> I think console parameter is probabl
On Thursday 08 February 2007 09:56, you wrote:
> I don't really understand how kernel command line options become env
> vars though - is something preventing console= from being an env var
> at this point?
I think console parameter is probably filtered out by the kernel (the
initrd parameter seem
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:25:39PM -0500, St?phane Larose wrote:
> I agree - not creating the serial device would be a problem for a pci serial
> card.
Ok, let's drop this option then
> > Is there a way we can support both? What if we create a ttySG0 file in
> > init-udev-devices and pass consol
On Thursday 01 February 2007 01:02, dann frazier wrote:
> Is /proc mounted at this point?
Yes it is.
> If so, then that's probably the best
> detection method available for etch. We could do something like [1]
> and not create the serial devices - but that feels like a hack to
> me. What if som
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:39:08AM -0500, St?phane Larose wrote:
> On Saturday 27 January 2007 23:21, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I'm not 100% sure, but I think that this is happening before udev gets a
> > chance to make it, since it's prior to init starting.
>
> This is correct. And after init, udev cr
On Saturday 27 January 2007 23:21, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think that this is happening before udev gets a
> chance to make it, since it's prior to init starting.
This is correct. And after init, udev create the /dev/ttySG0 device correctly.
> Seems like we could fix it by mak
Frans Pop wrote:
> The fact that /dev/ttySG0 does not get created is a kernel/udev issue as
> far as I know. After that is solved, passing 'console=/dev/ttySG0' as a
> boot parameter to the installer should make things work correctly.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that this is happening before
On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:57, Stéphane Larose wrote:
> In kernel > 2.6.7, there is a new serial console driver for the Altix
> L1 (CONFIG_SERIAL_SGI_L1_CONSOLE=y) and the device is /dev/ttySG0. I
> think this device gets associated with /dev/console in the d-i because,
> if I create it (just b
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Stéphane Larose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the end of December, I posted on this list about booting and running
> Debian
> etch on SGI Altix 350. There was basically 3 things to modify on the netinst
> cd to make it boot and install:
> - putting 'relocatable' in elilo
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